• DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml
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    Ohh. Is there some resource to learn more about that? I didn’t think that psychiatry had birthmarks like that or that the soviets had a particular distaste for it.

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      Its not really a socialist author but here Psychiatry after Kraepelin

      An important to note is Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology theory. Mosche Wulff was also an early figure (but he became later an establishing figure in Israhelli psychiatry so go figure).

      After the Lenin’s death especially Freudian psychoanalysis was rejected outright.

      Western society was more focused on stopping mental illness, while the soviets primarily were interested in care and mental illness divorced from a biological origin.